Skeppstedt, MariaAangenendt, GijsYousef, TariqAl-Khatib, Khalid2024-05-212024-05-212024978-3-03868-259-2https://doi.org/10.2312/vis4nlp.20241132https://diglib.eg.org/handle/10.2312/vis4nlp20241132The Word Rain visualization technique is a development of the classic word cloud that aims to retain the simplicity of the word cloud, while at the same time making it possible to use the text visualization for exploring and comparing corpora. We here showcase how the Word Rain technique can be used for visualizing longitudinal changes by displaying the most prominent words for each (user-defined) time period in the corpus. ''Most prominent'' for a time period can, however, have different meanings depending on how the word rain is configured. We here list a number of possible configuration types, and we also provide examples of word rains generated using some of these configurations. We showcase the configuration settings on a corpus of periodicals from the Swedish Diabetes Association.Attribution 4.0 International License10.2312/vis4nlp.202411327 pages